China has been urging calm and telling the DPRK (the North) to ignore the provocations of the ROK (South). And the DPRK has been restrained.
The US on the other hand has been joining the ROK "drills," increasingly massive while there are antiwar demonstrations in the ROK, not covered in the US.
The guiding light of US policy is to prevent China from rising any more, from getting any more prosperous. We in the US should understand that the wars in Central Asia, although carried out to obey Israel in part, are overwhelmingly aimed at China, either provoking a war with its neighbors or breaking it up. We do indeed live in a very evil Empire. Human rights and terrorism have nothing to do with these wars and provocations.
Meanwhile it is an unwritten rule on the "Left" including the "Peace and Justice" movement that nothing good is to be said of China, thus playing directly into the hands of the Empire's propaganda war on China.
John V. Walsh